# The Safety First Club and the Flood

Author: Nichols, William Theophilus, 1863-; Anderson, Frederic A., 1894-1950 [Illustrator]

Genre: Category: Children & Young Adult Reading

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/64566

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Safety+First+Club+and+the+Flood+Nichols&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

It was not a cheerful afternoon. Overhead were heavy, gray clouds, and underfoot was snow, long fallen, crusted by alternate thawing and freezing, dingy with the queer winter dust, which comes from nobody knows exactly where. In the beaten track of the roadways was an icy surface, made still more slippery by a thin coating, at once grimy and greasy, offering easy traction for the sledges, piled high with wood, which now and then came crunching along the streets. But it was full of peril to the motor cars, a few of which were abroad, skidding wildly at corners in spite of chained tires and careful driving. Out in the fields the snow was perhaps a foot deep. Where paths had been shoveled th...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XI THE GREAT MINCE PIE OF SUGAR VALLEY](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-safety-first-club-and-the-flood-64566/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII THROUGH THE LONG NIGHT](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-safety-first-club-and-the-flood-64566/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III UNCOMFORTABLE GLORY](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-safety-first-club-and-the-flood-64566/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XX THE PRIZE SNATCHED FROM THE FLOOD](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-safety-first-club-and-the-flood-64566/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V SNOW-SHOES](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-safety-first-club-and-the-flood-64566/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV THE HOUSE OF REFUGE](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-safety-first-club-and-the-flood-64566/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII EXPLORING THE VALLEY](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-safety-first-club-and-the-flood-64566/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIX WHAT BEFELL POKE AND STEP](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-safety-first-club-and-the-flood-64566/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII THE SHARK DEMONSTRATES](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-safety-first-club-and-the-flood-64566/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV THE HUNT](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-safety-first-club-and-the-flood-64566/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII THE RISING FLOOD](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-safety-first-club-and-the-flood-64566/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI BLIND TRAILS](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-safety-first-club-and-the-flood-64566/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII POKE’S MYSTERY](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-safety-first-club-and-the-flood-64566/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II VARLEY GETS ACQUAINTED](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-safety-first-club-and-the-flood-64566/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX SAM GETS A REMINDER](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-safety-first-club-and-the-flood-64566/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X THE BLOW DESCENDS](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-safety-first-club-and-the-flood-64566/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I THE CLUB CONFERS](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-safety-first-club-and-the-flood-64566/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI A LITTLE LUNCH](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-safety-first-club-and-the-flood-64566/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV SAM’S COUNSELLOR](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-safety-first-club-and-the-flood-64566/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII THE SHARK LECTURES](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-safety-first-club-and-the-flood-64566/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXI POKE OUT OF BONDAGE](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-safety-first-club-and-the-flood-64566/chapters/21/index.md)
